"Starfish Prime" quite definitively proves we've lost our minds.

A cool NPR article on "Starfish Prime" -  a U.S. project to set off a 1.4 megaton atomic bomb (1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) - in the magnetosphere to see if they could disrupt it.

"Back in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb, creating what might be the greatest fireworks spectacular ever. People in Hawaii gathered on rooftops, sipping drinks, as they watched a radioactive rainbow display in the night sky."

Check the video...